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SPINDLE SUPPORT. No. 332,068. Patented Dec. 8; 1885.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RIMMON O. FAY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE HOPEDALEMACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPlNDLE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 332,068, datedDecember 8,1885.

Application filed May 18, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RIMMON O. FAY, of Hopedale, county of \Vorccster.and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inSpindle-Supports, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to means for stoppering the oil-inlets for spindlesupports or steps; and it consists in a spindle support or step providedwith an oil-leg having a gravity plug or valve fitted in its month,which plug or valve is secured to the leg by a hook on one of its endsengaging a check-piece secured in the oil-leg, as I will now proceed toparticu larly set forth and claim.

Figure 1 shows a spindle support or step with its oil-leg partiallybroken out, myimproved valve being shown in its two positions by fulland dotted lines; and Fig. 2 shows the valve separately.

The support or step A, having the oil-receiving leg, is of well-knownconstruction. I provide the upper end of the oilreceiving leg with avalve, 0, shown as a tapering plug pro vided with a stem, (4, which atits lower end is made to engage a check-piece, b, the said stern beingpreferably of wire bent to form a hook to embrace the said check-piece,so that Serial No. 165,825. (No model.)

the valve may be lifted, as in dotted lines, to uncover the mouth of theoil-receiving leg to enable the introduction of oil from the spout of anoil-can, as shown by the dotted lines 0, and, preferably, the large endof the plug will be extended sufficiently above the open end of the leg,as shown in Fig. 1 by full lines, to enable the attendant by the nozzleof the can to push the said plug over and up outot' the oilreceivingleg, as shown in dotted lines; but as soon as the pressure is removedthe valve drops by its own gravity. The check I) is shown as made from apiece of wire sprung into the said.

0il-receiving leg, as in Fig. 1, aprojcction, b, hooking under a part ofthe oil-receiving leg.

I claim- The spindle support or case provided with an oil-receiving leg,A, and the check-piece I), provided with a hook, b, to retain it in saidleg, combined with the valve or plug a, having the hooked stem (1. inengagement with said check-piece, substantially as shown and de scribed.

In testimony whereof I hzwe signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

RIMMON O. FAY.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. A. DRAPER, WM. J. WooDs.

